Criticizes attempts to "biologize" consciousness by explaining its origin in evolutionary terms and identifying mental phenomena with brain processes, to "computerize" it by identifying mind with the supposed computational activity of the brain, and to eliminate it by denying the reality of qualia.
| ISBN: | 9780333763193 |
| Publication date: | 30th July 1999 |
| Author: | Raymond Tallis |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 297 pages |
| Genres: |
Philosophy of mind |